Oh God!
Oh God! is a 1977 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner based on a novel by Avery Corman. It features John Denver and George Burns in his best-known film role, playing God. Teri Garr plays Denver's wife, Bobbi.
The film inspired two sequels, Oh God! Book II (1980) and Oh God! You Devil (1984), both of which featured Burns reprising his role, but with no other recurring characters from the original story.
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Tagline
"Anybody who could turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, incinerate Sodom and Gomorrah and make it rain for forty days and forty nights has got to be a fun guy."
Plot
God appears (as a good natured old man) to an assistant supermarket manager, Jerry Landers (Denver). The Almighty selects Jerry as his messenger for the modern world. Landers' life is turned upside down as theologians try to discredit him. Landers meets with God several other times throughout the course of the story, gaining advice and insight from the Almighty.
A remake is planned for 2005, starring Ellen DeGeneres.
Trivia
- When Jerry is in the hotel room about to give God a quiz, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961), created by Carl Reiner, is on TV.
External links
- Oh God! (1977 version) entry at the Internet Movie Database
- Oh God! (2005 version) entry at the Internet Movie Database
- Oh God! Book II entry at the Internet Movie Database
- Oh God! You Devil entry at the Internet Movie Database
Categories: Comedy films